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Is Charisma Innate, Or Can You Learn It?

Center for Creative Leadership

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While optimism is generally a great quality for a CEO to possess, there is a point at which unbridled optimism can disconnect a person from reality. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting. This set of patterns influences your focus, decision making and thinking style. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

He was talking about how to help leaders influence others. I asked him, “Do you also teach leaders how to be influenced by others?” Yet, as our images of leaders have shifted and evolved, we still seem frozen in the mindset of Dale Carnegie’s 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

Simultaneously, other executives will not only experience a loss of influence but also feel vulnerable. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

At Banner Good Samaritan, as at any hospital, physicians are key leaders and influencers. Their in-depth knowledge of clinical functions and operations, their ability to drive revenue generation, and the direct effect they have on patient care and quality make it essential that they support and participate in cost reduction efforts.

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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Enthusiasm, naïveté, fear of repercussions, conformity to the group norms, and even wisdom are all things that can influence whether someone speaks up or not. Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.

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